Human Nature Quotes

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

Human-nature will not change.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Human nature craves novelty.

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

We are what we seem to be.

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.